Ugh. So people are freaking out about a school in Mass giving out condoms to students 1-12 grades. (Giving out is also kind of a misnomer. They will give them to you, but you have to talk to a nurse or counselor). Anyway, I can see where it's a bit extreme. I can also see that kids are getting pregnant as early as 9.
A friend's response to all this? "They" (I'm guessing the government. Though which government she doesn't specify), should tax parents for the pregnant kid and their baby because apparently only then will they care about what their kids are doing.
I know there are shitty parents in the world who probably truly don't give a rats ass what their kids do, but the majority even of those whose kids get into one kind of trouble or another are probably working as hard as they can to provide for and raise their children. And in this economy when people are working multiple jobs and some families put up with horrid commutes so they can live somewhere safe (if they get that) and affordable. Day care can be prohibitively expensive, and your solution is to tax these people?
Gah!
Everything should taste like meat, if only once. And if only once, that meat should be bacon.
Sigh. Things is locked down here, thanks to a bunch of dumbasses who decided the looniversity was a fun place to run to after playing cops and robbers somewhere off campus. Not that I wanted to go outside anyway, with it being 100 deg.
I'm eating a BLT right now AIFG.
The town in question in MA is Provincetown. It's a tourist town on the Cape, big arts and gay community. Not exactly Smallville.
ETA: the public school population, K-12, is 200.
ETA: the public school population, K-12, is 200
And I'm assuming only one nurse's office. So regardless of the age range of students actually using the condoms, it's "free condoms for grades K-12."
Actually they have 2 schools - K-6 and 7-12. And sixth graders, sadly, are in the possibly-needing-condoms population.
You know, I wish having condoms meant you were having sex.
It seems a good way of distinguishing also those who are interested in sex and need the talk, and those for whom the talk will cause them to go "What!?! Whatever. Can I go outside and play kickball, then?"
Ah. And now those parents working several jobs should "cut back" and change their lifestyles.
That welfare queen myth sure took didn't it?
